U.S. Army Corps of Engineers report the completion of Counter Narcotic facility in Kyrgyzstan

U.S. and Kyrgyzstan officials jointly opened two border posts constructed by the Middle East District with ribbon cutting ceremonies at Aikol and Kulundu in the southern region of Batken in early December 2014.

The two new border posts were funded by the USCENTCOM Counter Narcotics Program, enabling a greater presence of the state border service in the remote regions and improving their capacity to interdict illicit trafficking.

Prior to construction of these posts, the living conditions for the State Border Service troops were extremely difficult in the winter months due to severe temperatures. The facilities consist of residential and office buildings.

In 2013,  Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan signed a  trilateral declaration to regulate further counter-narcotics efforts and promised to support exchange of information and joint operations.

The countries are ready to deepen cooperation, to find mutually acceptable solutions and new modalities of collaboration in fight against drug trafficking, Kyrgyzstan's Drug Control Agency Chairman Alymbai Sultanov said.

Reported by: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers